Ken Austin (cricketer)

Quentin Ahern "Ken" Austin ISO (18 December 1908 – 16 July 2004) was a cricketer who played five matches of first-class cricket for Rhodesia: one in April 1928, and four between March 1946 and March 1947.

Ken Austin

Personal information
Full name	Quentin Ahern Austin
Born	(1908-12-18)18 December 1908 Queenstown, Cape Colony
Died	16 July 2004(2004-07-16) (aged 95) Harare, Zimbabwe
Batting	Right-handed
Bowling	Right-arm leg-spin
Domestic team information
Years	Team
1927-28 to 1946-47	Rhodesia
Career statistics
Competition First-class Matches 5 Runs scored 65 Batting average 8.12 100s/50s 0/0 Top score 25 Balls bowled 314 Wickets 4 Bowling average 49.25 5 wickets in innings 0 10 wickets in match 0 Best bowling 4/51 Catches/stumpings 3/–
Source: Cricinfo, 12 December 2021

Austin was educated at St Aidan's College in Grahamstown, Cape Province, and went to work in a bank. Dissatisfied with his job, he successfully applied for a position in the civil service in Salisbury, Rhodesia, in 1927 aged 18.^[1] He made his first-class debut a few months later, but was only moderately successful, making the top score of 25 in Rhodesia’s first innings of 135.^[2] Eighteen years later he resumed his first-class career, but he was even less successful, scoring only 40 runs and taking four wickets in four matches.^[3]

Austin was appointed Companion of the Imperial Service Order in 1963 for his service as Deputy Secretary in the Ministry of Local Government in Rhodesia.^[4] At the time of his death in Harare in 2004 at the age of 95, he was the oldest surviving Rhodesian cricketer.^[1]